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Alan Kotok; he tred vanguard of computers with brilliance, wit

Mon, 06/05/2006

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For someone who devised a computer chess program as an MIT undergraduate in the late 1950s, helped create the world's first video game, and held a leadership role with the World Wide Web Consortium, Alan Kotok got his start in an inauspicious fashion -- or so he was told.